If I should see you,

after long year.

How should I greet,

with tears, with silence.< /p>

If I could see you again,

It would be years later.

How can I congratulate you?

With tears and silence.

?——George Gordon Byron

This poem by Byron is perfect to describe this movie. If there is another kind of expression, it would be one sentence:

In a scene where everything is different and people are different, I like you the most.

Sometimes I feel that the distance in time is enough to make two people who love each other tireless until they die, and the distance in space is enough to make two people who love each other forget each other in the world.

Mia works in a coffee shop and dreams of becoming a Hollywood actress, but she is rejected and ridiculed every time she auditions. Sebastian wants to be a jazz musician and open his own jazz club. The jazz he likes is not the improved, evolved, or softened jazz that is currently popular, but old jazz. He knew that he was going against the current and taking the wrong path, which was destined to be high-key and mediocre.

Two young people who also had dreams but failed met in the winter of Los Angeles. The seeds of love had been quietly gestated. Love sprouted in the spring, fell in love passionately in the summer, conflicts became prominent in the autumn, and gradually withered, and they broke up in the winter. Love dies.

Later, she finally became a famous female star in Hollywood, and he also realized his original intention of opening a jazz club, but the two of them were never the same again.

If the tone of this film were changed, it would be like a Hollywood film from the 1950s and 1960s.

But in musicals, if there is a disagreement, the song and dance will lead to peace. The story told is indeed nothing new. It goes round and round, gatherings and separations, all clichés about love.

However, if there is anything deeper than love, it is - missed love.

This is a film about dreams and love, fulfillment and abandonment. After the relationship between the two changed, they each grew up and continued to move towards new life scenery.

What we yearned for when we were together has now come true, but you are no longer here.

In summary, the process of separation and union between the two people just illustrates one sentence:

Dreams are infinite, and others stand aside.

On the road to dreams, love is just a fragment, a sad episode in the long journey.

It is the distance of time, five years, which spans the soul and faith, and spans the intimate and yellowed memories.

It’s the distance in space. From the first searching figure in front of the movie screen, to the longing looking down at her glowing side face under the summer stars, he and she, together with all the past, disappear together in the accompanying In the turbulent time with notes.

Nowadays, the last note left before the end of the piano playing affects the vague and fragile thoughts, and the people who missed that year can only meet each other in memories from now on.

There is a scene: five years later, when she held her husband’s hand and walked into a jazz club that he said had a good style. Everything is so harmonious, casual and natural.

The logo on the door of the club made her eyes tremble.

The logo she designed back then was once rejected by him and he refused to use it, but now it really appeared in front of her.

He met her again in his seb's club. He picked up the microphone and seemed to be addressing the audience, but in fact he only said this to her:

"Welcome to seb's."

You are still you, just not the same person you were five years ago. You, time has not done anything to your face, it has only added some things to your eyes and gestures that I am not familiar with.

Your dream of stardom and my club are all dreams that we have fought for together, but they have been successfully realized in our lives when we do not exist in each other.

But you are right, the world has been around for thousands of years.

They are scattered in different corners and are busy, and they don’t even communicate. But you know that, like you, they will never forget this passionate emotion that they are willing to give. She has already married, and she is lying next to someone. Falling asleep to the sound of snoring, and even having a cute baby.

The best answer is actually already around you.

The director inserted a montage at the end of the film: when Sebastian was fired by his boss, he did not leave Mia who admired him indifferently, but stepped forward and kissed her.

Mia performed well.

They get married, have children, and stay together until old age.

Montage seems to have a magical power, creating another space to defeat the losses that are retreating in reality, and interpreting the illusory staying together.

This is the distance between dreams and reality, and also the distance between love. The reason why distance is beautiful is because it cuts off the width of reality. In the parallel time in his memory, he can hold her tightly in his arms. .

And it is precisely because the distance cannot be eliminated that the love that cannot end well in the face of dreams sounds like an old song that the more you sing, the more you want to cry, and the more you cry, the more you want to sing.

It looks like joy, but it is actually empty. Everything is an illusion.

I have lost you after all.

In this life, there must always be two things that are not controlled by the world, and should only listen to the call of one's own heart. One is dreams, and the other is love. Otherwise, no matter how rich you are for the rest of your life, you will still be poor.

But most of the time, people who are unhappy in life often cannot have their cake and eat it too, and are always in a dilemma.

Such an ending can easily remind me of the plot of "The Year in a Hurry":

Who is willing to have nothing to do with each other?

We We owe each other

Love and youth are sacrificed in such a heroic form in our irresponsible eyes.

Such regrets make us willing to pay for all the reasons that bring back memories of youth. Therefore, as soon as "La La Land" was released, domestic movie fans flocked to it and built up countless expectations.

Not only because it received so many ratings from foreign media and swept the Oscar nominations, it was chosen to premiere on Valentine’s Day in China. It's more because we need this kind of spiritual comfort so that we can have the courage to look back on our mediocre journey forward and see how the duplicitous version of ourselves turned away happiness without knowing how to cherish it.

I admire Xiao Sai very much. In the end, I only used the melody he played when we first met as a sign of the end. When she no longer belongs to you, even if you loved her in the past and you will still love her in the future, you should not disturb or destroy her existing life. This should be the best respect for each other.

But yes, I have already spent my whole life with you in my heart, but you don’t know it.

"I will always love you."

"I will always love you too."

Mia, you must know what Xiao Sai is thinking :

In this scene where everything is different and people are different, I like you the most.

Finally, let’s end with the song where Mia finally succeeded in her audition:

To those who have dreams, no matter how stupid they seem;

To the frustrated hearts;

To all the things we have screwed up;

To the people we have loved.

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